Curious Comeback Of The Dreaded QR Code

IT’S HARD TO pinpoint the exact moment QR codes became a joke. Was it the guy who scanned one of those black and white squares on the back of a Heinz bottle and landed on a page full of porn videos? Or when Gillette ran an ad inviting you to scan a code to “read Kate Upton’s mind”? Maybe it was the codes plastered around the New York City subway, across the tracks, making it impossible to scan them without killing yourself. No, you know what? It was when…